This GPN updates the previous version published on the Bank’s website on 6 October 2016.

SCE Taraz Su (the "Client"), a municipal water distribution and waste water treatment utility, has received a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the Bank) to
improve water infrastructure in the city of Taraz.

The proposed project, which has a total estimated investment cost of KZT 2.4 billion (EUR 6 million equivalent), will require the procurement of the following goods and works and services:

• Modernisation of pumping stations

• Reconstruction of water intakes

• SCADA

• Buildings and zonal water flow metering: replacement of water meters for legal entities

• Specialised machinery and equipment

Tendering for the above contracts has started in the fourth quarter of 2017.

• Buildings and zonal water flow metering: supply of process water flow meters

Tendering for the above contract is expected to start in the second quarter of 2018.

The contracts to be financed with the proceeds of a loan from the Bank and an investment grant from the Government of Kazakhstan and will be subject to the Bank"s Procurement Policies and Rules
and will be open to firms from any country. The proceeds of the Bank"s loan will not be used for the purpose of any payment to persons or entities, or for any import of goods, if such payment
or import is prohibited by a decision of the United Nations Security Council taken under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations or under a law or official regulation of the
Purchaser"s country.